How to become a member: Print this form, fill it and add S016, SPSU chapter at the top. Enter your home address for receiving
the magazines. Mail the form and a $20 check to SME headquarter (address is on the
form). Please do not do this online as currently there is an issue with assigning
members and you may not be assigned to SPSU chapter.

SME @ SPSU:

Welcome to the cyber home of the SPSU Student chapter of the Greater Atlanta area
SME. Please read this page and feel free to contact us if you have any questions or
an interest in joining our membership. Memberships can be renewed or started online
at www.sme.org.

The main purpose of the club is to introduce SPSU students to the local SME community.
In the Greater Atlanta area we have the Atlanta Chapter, and also Georgia Southern
and the Georgia Tech Student chapters.

Meetings with the Atlanta Chapter are typically held on the third Tuesday of the
month. Local student chapter meetings will be posted on this website and around the
Q Buildings.

Being a member of the club is not a requirement, although it is encouraged. Everyone
is encouraged to stop by one of our meetings or "field trips."

Thank you, Simin Nasseri

About SME:

The Society of Manufacturing Engineers is the world’s leading professional society
supporting manufacturing education. Through its member programs, publications, expositions,
and professional development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness of manufacturing
engineering and helps keep manufacturing professionals up to date on leading trends
and technologies. Visit www.sme.org.

SPSU chapter has over 50 members. Most members are current SPSU students.

Chapter Activities:

Seminars and presentations @ SPSU

Professional development programs (conferences and technical expositions)

The SME student chapter arranges the Lockheed Tour every semester.This tour is always a big hit and usually there are 50 attendees to the tour. Every
single one enjoys the tour! In last visits, many MET students, students from Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
at SPSU, other SPSU students, staff and faculty members and members of the SME Atlanta
senior chapter visited the C-130 J / F-22 production lines. Lockheed is impressed with the response so they have been interested in doing tours
every semester. Stay tuned for our next tour and check the facebook page. Click on each picture below to see a larger size:

Did you know...

Only SME members can download free technical papers from our library of over 17,000!
.

Only SME members can, at no charge, seek answers to technical questions or find information
needed by contacting our on-staff librarian.

As a member, you receive reduced prices when purchasing SME's vast collection of leading
publications in manufacturing. Here's a free video program from our METV page.

As a member, you learn from peers sharing your same technical interests by joining
a Technical Community. Reap the benefits of having access to a collective knowledge
of professionals in your specialized manufacturing niche—worldwide.

Only SME members can search and download free back issue articles from Manufacturing
Engineering magazine, the foremost authority in manufacturing. Just enter a keyword
into our search box and then click on Magazine/Journal articles.

Your SME membership entitles you to free access to keynote papers of several previous
CIRP General Assemblies as well as papers presented by a number of the CIRP Scientific
and Technical Committees.

Certified Manufacturing Technologist Exam (CMfgT)

To apply for this exam, read the following information carefully:

Certified Manufacturing Technologist (CMfgT)

Earning the CMfgT demonstrates your competence in the fundamentals of manufacturing.
It requires a minimum of 4 years combined manufacturing-related education and/or work
experience.

Sep 2008: The SME student chapter was awarded a $5,000 Education Grant from the SME Education Foundation. MET students joined SME chapter for an opening meeting and celebration on Wed Sep
10th. Many students attended this meeting and enjoyed the free pizzas and sodas. Some
faculty members talked about various issues like the importance of joining SME, becoming
SME officers, taking manufacturing technologist exam, SME tours, etc.

SME chapter at SPSU Congratulates these students and wishes them well in their future careers!

History/Past Events

2006- 2007:

Plant Tours: NYpro Ameristeel

Competitions: Oct. 31st 2006, hosted at the 2006 Fabtech International and AWS Welding Show: The
competition entailed designing and constructing a catapult-like mechanism in a three
hour time span. Teams were given a trebuchet kit package as well as extra materials
to build the most effective device. The catapults were judged on overall design, distance
achieved when firing, and accuracy when firing.

Shows: The first FEBTECH International & AWS Welding Show to take place in the Southeast
recently concluded at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center after 3 full days of
impressive crowds and bustling exhibits. The show represented the largest showcase
of metal forming, fabricating, tube & pipe and welding equipment and technology in
North America this year.

The Atlanta Chapter hosted a special showing of an SME seminar on Lean and Beyond
for the Small Shop - Tools for Survival and Profitability, produced at the Annual
Meeting in Cincinnati, it was shown via a web hook-up at the Georgia Tech Manufacturing
Research Center.

SME members in North Georgia have a special opportunity to tour one of the premier
breweries in the Southeast, the ANHEUSER-BUSCH CARTERSVILLE BREWERY. Make your plans
today! Still the newest brewery in the Anheuser-Busch family, it is now a little over
ten years old and occupies nearly a million square feet. It has doubled in capacity
since its beginnings and now turns out 7.8 million barrels per year, covering brands
like Budweiser, Bud Light, Bud Ice, Bud Ice Light, Bud Dry, Busch, Busch Light, Busch
Ice, Hurricane Malt Liquor, King Cobra Malt Liquor, Michelob, Michelob Light, Michelob
Ultra, Michelob AmberBock, Natural Light, Natural Ice, and Tequiza. This brewery serves
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina, with approximately 210 truck
loads per day. This plant has for eight years been named Georgia Plant of the Year
for superior Biological Waste Treatment by the Georgia Water & Pollution Control Association,
Inc. Their “treatment plant employs a state-of-the-art system that removes pollutants
and creates methane gas that is used as a fuel source,” says plant manager, Steve
McDaniel.